| Least Favourite Americanisms 08:55 - Nov 12 with 30252 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Noticed more than ever on last weekend's trip to Blighty that you lot have joined us in Americanaland in that you now do your shopping in a 'store' rather than a 'shop'. Now I was always thought that the store was the dingy room at the back of the shop where they actually, y'know, stored stuff. Or, more precisely, the room where the lad went for a smoke while pretending to check whether they had any spare bogroll. This pretence at looking is annoying, by the way, but it is infinitely better than you asking if they have any spare stock and him, without listening, giving you the lazy-assed automaton reply 'everything we have is on the shelves', which makes you ask him why the fugg they built the huge fugging room out back so with the price of real estate.
What reminded me of all this is that I'm in a doctor's waiting room (knee injury - nothing serious) and as every person comes to the desk and does the 'morning, how are you?' routine their standard answer is 'I'm good'. What?
Are you? Are you 'good'? Are you well-behaved? Morally sound? A beacon of goodness in this bad, bad world? Well, nice to know, I'm sure. But are you well? That, after all, is more pertinent info and would be an appropriate answer to the question while we're at it.
Good! Californian Disney Ar$e-scutter! Away with you!
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:12 - Nov 12 with 2689 views | ozexile |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 08:59 - Nov 12 by MrSheen |
My bad. |
That one bugs me massively |  | | |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:13 - Nov 12 with 2686 views | TheBlob |
Redacted.
wtf is that? |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:19 - Nov 12 with 2672 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:31 - Nov 12 by BrianMcCarthy |
Movie.
It's a film, or - if you're Irish like me - a fillum.
Fuggin' movie, my ar$e. |
Well, technically that's not true.
Movie is a moving picture.
Many moving pictures are no longer shot on film. So 'movie' is a more correct catch-all term ;) |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:21 - Nov 12 with 2664 views | londonscottish |
Meeting WITH someone. F*** ***. You are not meeting with someone. You are meeting someone. |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:21 - Nov 12 with 2661 views | Antti_Heinola |
And no Americanisms annoy me. Why would they? It's just a different way of saying something.
Language is beautiful, in all its forms. Its diversity and richness and little foibles are what make it so wonderful.
And if any of you disagree, feel free to reach out to me and I'll give you some Xanax so you can chill. | |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:34 - Nov 12 with 2641 views | Lewes_r |
missing you already |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:34 - Nov 12 with 2639 views | TheBlob |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:21 - Nov 12 by Antti_Heinola |
And no Americanisms annoy me. Why would they? It's just a different way of saying something.
Language is beautiful, in all its forms. Its diversity and richness and little foibles are what make it so wonderful.
And if any of you disagree, feel free to reach out to me and I'll give you some Xanax so you can chill. |
It's diversity.Obviously Americans don't understand the apostrophe. | |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:45 - Nov 12 with 2619 views | Doughnut |
Bathroom, Math & truck.....read Toilet, Maths & Lorry.
The f**ing word is mathematics....plural.
Kids asking their teachers if they can 'use' the bathroom..........it's the thin end of the wedge you know!!!!!
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:46 - Nov 12 with 2613 views | JonDoeman |
For me its that 'whooping' noise. Fcking hate it, gets right on my tits. |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:49 - Nov 12 with 2611 views | 1BobbyHazell |
The strangest one is replacing 'couldn't care less' with 'could care less'.
Completely lacking in sense, logic, reason or necessity. |  | | |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:57 - Nov 12 with 2595 views | johncharles |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:21 - Nov 12 by londonscottish |
Meeting WITH someone. F*** ***. You are not meeting with someone. You are meeting someone. |
Talking WITH someone means you are both at the same time. |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:04 - Nov 12 with 2587 views | johncharles |
May I use the the bathroom ?
Yes, as long as you don't piss in the bath. | |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:04 - Nov 12 with 2585 views | CamberleyR |
Macaroni Cheese being called Mac 'n' Cheese - Fúck off
School Proms - Fúck off
Hallowe'en - Double fúck off
Season for a series of a telly show - Fúck off
Train station - Fúck off. It's a railway station. |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:24 - Nov 12 with 2548 views | londonscottish |
People who say 'At this present moment in time' when the could just say 'At the moment' or 'Now'. | |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:38 - Nov 12 with 2531 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:34 - Nov 12 by TheBlob |
It's diversity.Obviously Americans don't understand the apostrophe. |
Oh dear Blob.
Dear oh dearie me.
This is correct:
Its diversity and richness and little foibles are what make it so wonderful.
This is correct:
It's diversity and richness and little foibles that make it so wonderful.
This is not:
It's diversity and richness and little foibles are what make it so wonderful. [Post edited 12 Nov 2015 11:42]
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:39 - Nov 12 with 1926 views | hopphoops |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:10 - Nov 12 by Konk |
Reaching out can fu ck right off. I have colleagues say things like, “Can you reach out to Dave and see if he can cover the early shift, tomorrow?”. Yesterday, a colleague said he was going to “Reach out to Brian to see if he can turn the heating down”. What a bunch of cu nts — do you mean, “Can you ring/speak with Dave?”. You’re not some Mafia boss calling in a favour from a corrupt Congressman, you fu cking idiots; stop saying it! This is entirely attributable to over exposure to our US offices. |
But if you don't reach out to someone, how else are you going to connect?
My bugbear is to 'speak to' as in 'this thread speaks to the fear of reverse colonization engendered by the spread of crosspond neologisms'
Otherwise i'm with Antti. |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:43 - Nov 12 with 1916 views | superstan |
Think outside the box guy's | | | |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:44 - Nov 12 with 1914 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:19 - Nov 12 by Antti_Heinola |
Well, technically that's not true.
Movie is a moving picture.
Many moving pictures are no longer shot on film. So 'movie' is a more correct catch-all term ;) |
Moving forward, I may reach out to you with a boxing glove! ;) | |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:50 - Nov 12 with 1898 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:39 - Nov 12 by hopphoops |
But if you don't reach out to someone, how else are you going to connect?
My bugbear is to 'speak to' as in 'this thread speaks to the fear of reverse colonization engendered by the spread of crosspond neologisms'
Otherwise i'm with Antti. |
'Speak to' is hair-tearing. I listen to a lot of baseball podcasts and commentaries and that's a huge favourite of theirs. 'Does the lack of power hitting speak to current coaching trends?' It might, if it was a person and 'current coaching trends' was also a person. Otherwise, they just collections of word and no more likely to speak to each other than two empty cars are likely to drive towards each other. | |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:57 - Nov 12 with 1883 views | Mytch_QPR |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:44 - Nov 12 by BrianMcCarthy |
Moving forward, I may reach out to you with a boxing glove! ;) |
Brian,
Maybe you should make a window in your diary to create some down time... |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 12:02 - Nov 12 with 1875 views | 1BobbyHazell |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:57 - Nov 12 by Mytch_QPR |
Brian,
Maybe you should make a window in your diary to create some down time... |
Yeah, I think he needs to take a time out and get in touch with some of his issues. | | | |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 12:02 - Nov 12 with 1874 views | Lewes_r |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 11:43 - Nov 12 by superstan |
Think outside the box guy's |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 12:02 - Nov 12 with 1869 views | Gloucs_R |
I work for an American company.....here we go...
Cell Phone
Router pronounced ROW-TER
Z instead of S
Its Aluminium not Al-OHH-MIN-ERM
The letter U
Vacation or PTO - Its a fking holiday
Agree with "reach out"
Can I get...
Whats your quota for this quarter - its a bloody target not a quota
and whatever you do....NEVER, NEVER say the following in America...
I'm just going outside to smoke a fag
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Last night I ate some fag.gots!! |  |
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| Least Favourite Americanisms on 12:08 - Nov 12 with 1859 views | superstan |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 12:02 - Nov 12 by Gloucs_R |
I work for an American company.....here we go...
Cell Phone
Router pronounced ROW-TER
Z instead of S
Its Aluminium not Al-OHH-MIN-ERM
The letter U
Vacation or PTO - Its a fking holiday
Agree with "reach out"
Can I get...
Whats your quota for this quarter - its a bloody target not a quota
and whatever you do....NEVER, NEVER say the following in America...
I'm just going outside to smoke a fag
or
Last night I ate some fag.gots!! |
Bi-cester, Bur- Ming-ham, Li-cester, | | | |
| Least Favourite Americanisms on 12:17 - Nov 12 with 1844 views | Rs_Holy |
We had a conversation at work recently regarding “what have the Americans ever done for us.” We spent ages listing all the things they a have created which are of no benefit to us, and it basically became vehicle for us to vent our spleens on how much worse the world is because of all things US…
In the end we could only come up 3 things that we felt were of benefit to the world…
1. Jeans (Denim)
2. Rock’N’Roll (and the various musical spin offs)
3. Pop Corn
Everything else has been an unmitigated disaster! |  | | |
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